Garment hanger



E. F. SELBY.

GARMENT HANGER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26. 1920.

1,432,419 Patented Oct. 17, 1922 Patented (Get. 17, 11922.

ERNEST F. SELIBY, 0F PROVIDENCE,

RHODE ISLAND.

GARMENT HANGER.

Application filed June 26, 1920.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEs'r F. SELBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers, and has for its object to provide an arm hinged at one end to a support and provided with a plurality of spaced-apart garment-supporting forms or frames flexibly connected thereto, the hinge on the arm being, so arranged that when the arm is swung up into folded position it will be disposed on an oblique angle whereby the bulk of the garments on the different frames, will be more or less distributed and will not be bunched or disposed one directly over the other.

By my improved hanger the following advantages are obtained; first, by swinging the arm up and securing it in raised position, the space occupied by it and the garments on it, is greatly reduced; second, by disposing the arm when raised in an oblique position, the garments are so disposed as not to hang directly one upon the other, thereby reducing the thickness of the pile and also minimizing the liability of pressing wrinkles into the garments.

The nature and advantages of the invention will be better understood when the following detail description is taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,

the invention residing in the combination and arrangement of parts as claimed.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views and wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my improved garment hanger as connected to the inner side of a closet door.

Figure 2 is a front view showing the arm in raised oblique position and the forms suspended from their different hooks on the arm, the center of each being laterally offset one beyond the other.

Figure 3 is an edge view illustrating the arm as swung ug into raised position with its end releasab y connected to the support to which the arm is hinged.

Figure 4 is a front view looking at the end of the arm in section and illustrating Serial No. 351,902.

the relative position of the supporting hooks and the hinge whereby when the arm raised it lies in an oblique position. With reference to the drawings, 10 designates the supporting arm which may be made of any suitable material and of any suitable length. One end of this arm is preferably formed square as at 11 and is provided with a hinge 12 so disposed and connected to a door, wall or other support, that the arm will swing on an angle, as illustrated.

At intervals along the under side of this arm I have connected hooks 13 which are adapted to hang vertically when the arm is in horizontal position, and on these sev eral hooks are flexibly connected frames or forms l l on which the garments (not shown) are hung.

The free end of this arm is provided with an eye 15 to which is connected a ring 16 and to this ring is connected one end of a chain, cord or other flexible supporting connector 17. The upper end of this chain or connector is also provided with a ring 18 which is adapted to engage a hook 19 on the inner side of the door or support to which the arm is also attached.

t will be noted that this hook 19 is so positioned that it performs two functions; first, the upper end of the cord or chain 17 is connected thereto and second, the ring 1'6 on the end of the arm 10 is also adapted to engage this hook 19 to hold or retain this arm in raised position.

It is found in practice to be of advantage to swing this arm when raised into an oblique position as illustrated in Figure 2, as by this means it will be seen that the garments on the difierent forms or frames instead of hanging in one pile, one directly above the other, are distributed laterally whereby the thickness of the pile is reduced and the weight of the garments laying upon each other, is so distributed-as to lessen the wrinkling or creasing effect due to the pressure of one or more garments laying upon the others.

The device is inexpensive and practical in construction and effective in its operation, and by its use the arm may be readily dropped down into a horizontal position to facilitate a selection of the garments hanging thereon and then when it is desired to close the door of the clothes press and reduce the space, it is only necessary to swing the arm to raised position and secure it by passing the ring 16 over the hook 19, in which position the different garments are so distributed as to keep them in the best possible condition in a space necessarily so contracted.

The foregoing description is directed sole ly towards the construction illustrated, but I reserve the privilege of resorting to all the mechanical changes to Which the device is susceptible the invention being defined and limited only by the terms of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A garment hanger comprising an arm pivoted at one end to a relatively fixed support, a plurality of garment-supporting frames flexibly suspended from said arm, a supporting member at one side of a vertical. through the pivot point, a flexible connection between said member and the free end of the pivoted arm, the relation of the member and pivot of the arm being such that arm passes through a plane at an angle to the vertical in moving to raised position whereby when raised the supporting points of said frames on said arm are out of both vertical and longitudinal alinements with each other, and means for detachably connecting the free end of said arm to said support when in raised position. i

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ERNEST F. SELBY. 

